SAINt JHN

Released: November 20, 2020

Featuring: Kanye West

Songwriter: johan lenox SAINt JHN Kanye West F a l l e n

Producer: F a l l e n

[Chorus: SAINt JHN]
Pray for me, only if you need (Pray)
Pray for me, never on your knees (Pray)
Pray for me, when the summer breeze (Pray for me, when the summer breeze)
Pray for me, and that I never bleed (Pray for me, and that I'll never bleed, yeah, yeah, yeah)
Pray for me, for the family (Pray for me, for the family)
Pray for me, for the man I'm supposed to be (Pray for me, for the man I'm supposed to be)
Pray for me, put your hand on me
Pray for me and my enemies

[Verse 1: SAINt JHN]
Them niggas know, don't еver approach me
Them niggas know I got it, gotta look at mе closely
Cut from a different cloth, from a different upholstery
Born from a different mind, when you see me, you toast me, oh
My life now, this highlight now
Just play my mama this if I die right now
Before I close my eyes, before I lie down
Whenever I hang my hat, I'll never hide my crown
And the views got a nigga distracted
Porsche on the hill lookin' pretty attractive
And I'll use her, I'mma do it, you can't tell her your tactics
I been there for a while so I studied the tactics
And Meek tryna lower the maxes
Trump in the House tryna lower the accents
Real life movie, I don't know any actors
I'm just tryna move forward, they keep pullin' me backwards

[Verse 2: Kanye West]
See, this visceral reaction's not reciprocal
Matter of fact, the way you actin' is just typical
Matter of fact, the force I'm givin' you centrifugal
Matter of fact, if I just doubled up, I'd triple you
Gotta come up with somethin', somethin', somethin' different, dude
Gotta come up with somethin', somethin', somethin' different, dude
'Specially when Ye, Ye, Ye, Ye in a different mood
'Specially when Ye, Ye, Ye, Ye in a different mood
They wanna ask, "Is he well?" when my mind's on Israel
I know that I'ma live to tell that we lived through a livin' Hell
Under the Remy spell, in a living cell
This ain't living real, this is a different deal, bruh
This is a different field, bruh, tell me how you feel, bruh

[Bridge: SAINt JHN]
Steel trigger, blaow
Even though I'm somebody niggas won't figure out
Even though they sayin' I'm really that nigga now
Even though they sayin' it's nothin' to think about
I promise to think it out, woah

[Chorus: SAINt JHN]
Pray for me, only if you need (Need)
Pray for me, never on your knees (Knees)
Pray for me, when the summer breeze (Summer breeze)
Pray for me, that I never bleed
Pray for me, for the family (Family)
Pray for me, for the man I'm supposed to be (Supposed to be)
Pray for me, put your hand on me (On me)
Pray for me and my enemies
Told Lee he'd be a millionaire

Born in Brooklyn and of Guyanese descent, Carlos St. John Phillips grew up listening to a lot of Caribbean music. With his father absent, JHN tried his hand at drug dealing but didn’t like it. After this, he followed his older brother into rapping. He said of the experience, “my older brother felt like a father. He was only two years older than me so that was all I had. Whatever he would’ve done I was going to do.” In the beginnings of his music career he went by Carlos Saint John. He describes his earlier rapping style as more aggressive and less melodic than his current output. He also used this name for a brief time when he put rapping on hold to spend time writing songs for other artists. JHN has co-writing credits on songs like Usher’s 2016 hits “Crash” and “Rivals.”

He is part of a collective called GØDD COMPLEXx.

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